Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Public disclosures from researcher Dave Troy suggest that Ripple co-founder and vocal privacy advocate Chris Larsen has been identified as a participant or founding fellow within Peter Thiel’s private networking group, known as ‘Dialog’. This group reportedly gathers prominent figures from the…

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The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of near-free money. Going into the decision, the track record pointed one way: every one of…

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For years, Bitcoin miners were little more than leveraged bets on BTC prices. That’s changing fast. As mining margins tighten and demand for AI computing accelerates, the industry’s biggest players are discovering that access to power and data center infrastructure may be more valuable than hash rate. That shift gained further validation this week as…

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Kraken says it has launched CFTC-regulated U.S. perpetual futures for eligible traders, a move that could bring one of crypto’s most popular derivatives structures closer to the domestic regulatory perimeter. TL;DR Kraken announced CFTC-regulated U.S. perpetual futures for eligible clients. …

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Congress wants a task force for cryptocurrency theft months after the Justice Department disbanded NCET. The proposal, introduced by Reps. Lance Gooden and Josh Gottheimer, would create a Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Task Force inside the Justice Department and place it under the attorney general or a designee, according to the bill text and a June…

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SpaceX’s IPO is already spilling into crypto markets, where one whale has opened a $22.3 million leveraged long on SPCX, a synthetic pre-IPO perpetual contract tied to Elon Musk’s aerospace company. Key takeaways: The whale is already sitting on more than $1.15 million in unrealized profit. Synthetic SPCX is trading near $175, roughly 30% above…

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Short squeezes and $11 million liquidations fueled the rapid Audiera (BEAT) price spike. Weekly burns and $2.9 million revenue added strong narrative support. $7.50 support is key, break below risks move toward $6 or lower. Audiera (BEAT) has become one of the most talked-about tokens in the digital asset market after recording an explosive move…

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Hedgeye has filed for a “Hedged Bitcoin” ETF that would combine exposure to spot ETFs with an options overlay designed to reduce volatility and manage downside risk. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart flagged the filing on X, calling it a new attempt…

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Amid crypto’s ongoing DeFi hack crisis, Humanity Protocol’s H token crash has turned a biometric identity project into the latest example of the sector’s oldest failure mode: control of keys. The project is built around proof-of-humanity infrastructure, with official materials describing palm biometrics, zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identifiers, and verifiable credentials as parts of a privacy-preserving…

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On-chain URPD data and whale activity suggest that Dogecoin is sitting in a high-interest accumulation zone for long-term holders. Dogecoin (DOGE) has gained a modest 2% on Monday, hovering near $0.086, right above a major support zone. But new fresh analysis shows that the OG meme coin is at a critical structural inflection point.…

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